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It seems you don't work for Samsung (use of word 'them'). Gramatically speaking, how can you be proud of something you had no hand in?
by topbanana 10y ago
It seems you don't work for Samsung (use of word 'them'). Gramatically speaking, how can you be proud of something you had no hand in?
- nxtrafalgar 10y ago'Proud of' is an acceptable colloquial substitute here for 'pleased with'.
- topbanana 10y agoReally? This must have passed me by
- MaulingMonkey 10y agoMore commonly one is "proud of" one's children or "proud of" one's country - in the latter case especially, your direct hand in whatever "they" did may is probably a statistical rounding error away from zero. Not very different to be "proud of" one's compatriots in the world of technology.
- ClassyJacket 10y agoWhat a strange correction. Nothing they said was unusual or incorrect. It was a perfectly acceptable choice of words.